The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
#395 w/ Katherine Mangu-Ward "Nothing Is True and Debate is Murder"
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#395 w/ Katherine Mangu-Ward "Nothing Is True and Debate is Murder"

  • Moynihan’s hobo disaster

  • KMW, disinformation queen, stops by for a few, tells us how she broke her kneecap

  • KMW: The Fifth is staffed by crotchety scare-mongering old dudes (Ed. - This is disinformation)

  • So why *is* KMD the disinformation queen?

  • Wait, what does “disinformation” even mean??

  • The movie Contact is pretty libertarian

  • Killing old people, dead crank doctors, and libertarian Rachel Welch

  • According to hundreds of stupid people, the New York Times is a hate group or something

  • Religious TRUTH replaces reasoned debate

  • Nothing is real and everything you say is killing people

  • Moynihan’s Caribbean plea………

  • And so much more!

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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.